ABSTRACT
This conclusion of the book presents the summary of the key negotiation dynamics of the climate, trade and biosafety cases provide useful policy insights for the organizers of future negotiations. Hardly anyone felt excluded, and negotiators in Montreal eventually agreed on the Protocol on biosafety. The stakes in the biosafety negotiations evolved during the 1990s as the field enormously gained in economic significance. Rich evidence from negotiations across the fields of climate change, trade and biodiversity revealed that organizers hold four levers of negotiation management in their hands. The Danish Presidency started out with a team from the Danish Climate Ministry that had high expertise in the process and content of climate negotiations. It concludes that negotiation management can make the decisive difference in reaching multilateral cooperation on salient global challenges of today, such as climate change, trade and biosafety. The organizers of future multilateral negotiations want to take this finding to their hearts.
